Silicon Investor (SI) -- The First Internet Community

STOCKTALK

We've detected that you're using an ad content blocking browser plug-in or feature. Ads provide a critical source of revenue to the continued operation of Silicon Investor. We ask that you disable ad blocking while on Silicon Investor in the best interests of our community. If you are not using an ad blocker but are still receiving this message, make sure your browser's tracking protection is set to the 'standard' level.

Politics : View from the Center and Left -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: one_less who wrote (17213)	4/26/2006 5:50:01 PM
From: Dale Baker	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 542133

I have been assuming that to be the goal of every administration. Measure their results over time. Some achieve it, most don't. Most political crusades are selfish campaigns for a narrow agenda. It has little to do with partisanship. Reagan and Clinton are the only modern politicians who succeeded in creating a substantial coalition for their causes, despite their opposite positions. Others who pretended to have popular support - Carter, and both Bushes - never generated real credibility and confidence, not enough to build lasting majorities. Spinmeisters like Snow are just howling at the wind, hoping they can get a transient 51% to hold their cause together for a brief moment. It has nothing to do with genuine credibility and confidence. Deep down, as much as they crave that approval, they know it will never ever come. Never has, never will. Extremists shine and fade in America, period.